19th-Century French School Barbizon School Landscape With Fisherman square Its smoke seems to echo

Its smoke seems to echo the flames that rise from the nearby burning buildings

Yet somehow this is tempered with sorrow and her eyes seem to catch our conscience

Snell was an interesting painter as his works span a transitionary period for British art

while he's casually perched in his study adjectant to a notebook and the morning news

19th-Century French School Barbizon School Landscape With Fisherman square Its smoke seems to echoA wonderfully atmospheric French school landscape depicting a tree lined pond and a seated fisherman. It has a lost in time quality and appears to be a barn find. Its signed L Devedeux, which refers to the great French landscape painter Louis Devedeux (1820 1874). Its unlikely that he painted this so perhaps the artist was a follower. Its certainly from the same period. The painting is housed within a chippy gilded frame with swept foliate decoration.